Timothy Spall

“When I was born, my dad was a scaffolder, and my mum worked in a chip shop. Then my mum taught herself how to be a hairdresser and ended up with her own salon; my dad became a postman and then a counter clerk. Our first house didn't have a bathroom.”

“You create a proto-human being out of people that you've encountered in your life, and you start building up this person and start becoming this person.”

“These people I play are not usually wish-fulfillment characters.”

“I've never seen a poltergeist, but I do believe there is more than what we see, that there is more than just this.”

“It's my job to manipulate feelings.”